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[brutol]

i owe my body so many apologies

[byecolonizer]

More people need to see and understand this!

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

friend: what’s wrong? do you wanna talk about it?

me:

[e-jotja-deactivated20200224]

my therapist said i need my pussy ate from the back

[theweirdwideweb]

[a-rich-friendship]

[viostormcaller]

Whatever is going on in Minnesota I am LIVING for it

[that-one-nb-kid]

My favorite thing about this is that they’re all by different people

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[blue-skies-are-alright]

I really need this…

[queensxxyycv-deactivated2024092]

please

[hydro-homies]

You know how it is

[30-minute-memes]

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

[huffpost]

Mom declares her daughter is done with homework in viral email.

Blogger Bunmi Laditan sent her 10-year-old’s school a clear message.

“Hello Maya’s teachers,

Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. She’s been very stressed and is starting to have physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4 a.m. worrying about her school workload.

She’s not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy family time and we’d like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.”

[fishyandclintbarton]

A++++ parenting 💜

[dienaziscum]

I’ve talked with a whole cadre of child therapists and psychiatrists about this very issue. There is little conclusive evidence that homework significantly improves elementary school children’s grades, understanding of subjects, or facility with various operations, processes, etc. However, plenty of evidence suggests that ever-increasing amounts of homework for young children lead to stress, anxiety, emotional fatigue, resistance toward academics in general, lack of leisure time to build social/interpersonal skills, and poorer family relations.  (My kids were doing about 3 hours a week IN KINDERGARTEN, at age 5 – so that’s ½ hour every night, after a 6.5 hour school day, or else saving it up for long slogs over the weekend, even more disruptive. And that wasn’t including reading practice!)

We have stopped doing homework altogether with my 7 year old as a result of severe anxiety/depression and a learning disability. She had gotten to a place where she had so little self confidence and truly believed that she was stupid and worthless, not just because of homework of course – but every time we tried to sit down to do homework with her, it’d end in tears with her really vehemently berating herself, and no amount of encouragement could ameliorate the damage done. Now, granted, she’s got other things going on besides just an overload of school work. But in NO WAY did the homework help her, either academically or emotionally. 

No little kid should have to spend an hour or more each night getting through homework. Now, my deal with Siena is that if she wants to give her homework a shot, I will absolutely help her if she wishes for help, but I no longer force her to complete all of it or to work on it for some set length of time before finally throwing in the towel. 

Guess what? With the pressure taken off, she’s actually doing MORE independent work now, purely out of the desire to learn and practice, than she ever was before we’d decided with her therapy team and school that homework was just not a thing this kid could handle.

Luckily for my older daughter my school’s 3rd-grade team decided to hand out homework only 3x/week, and the sheets take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. That is totally reasonable for 8-9 year olds! 

Anyway tl;dr just because the school system may require it sure as shit doesn’t mean parents can’t, or shouldn’t, fight it. Do what’s right for your kid, and above all, let them be kids. 

[darkwizardjamesmason]

I eventually stopped doing homework because I was overwhelmed by it.

[ryttu3k]

There was an article just the other day in the local paper about a primary school that’s abolishing homework! You can read it here (autoplay video, gives you a few seconds to stop it).

[alren-ki]

God I wish this had been an option before we had to give up public school for me, I’d spend literally all my time at home doing school work, it was horrid.

[dancinbutterfly]

AMERICAN PARENTS! YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF HOMEWORK IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. ONT GET IN THE WAY OF THE EACHERS TEACHING BUT DO GET IN THE WAY OF THE SCHOOL BOARD (STATE, DISTRICT AND COUNTY) AND ADMINISTRATION WHO ARE MAKING TEACHERS DO THIS CUZ FYI - THEY DONT WANT TO. ALSO!!!! YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE THE RIGHT TO OPT YOUR CHILD OUT OF ANY STANDARDIZED TESTING NOT REQUIRED FOR YOUR CHILD TO BE PROMPTED A GRADE. THEY WILL TRY AND TALK AROUND YOU BUT IF YOU STICK TO YOUR GUNS, YOU CAN GET THEM OUT OF THAT SHIT. D TREAT STANDARDIZED TESTING LIKE UNIONIZING - ORGANIZE WITH FELLOW PARENTS AND ALL OPT OUT - ITS THE ONLY WAY TO BREAK THE YOKE.

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[kitty]

[pouho]

WHO is he someone please TELL me who this Boy is

[mizoguchi]

That’s Bone Bone the cat!

[techyvegan]

not to be dramatic or anything but i would fucking die for you bone bone

[gahdamnpunk]

Why are they trying to be likeable? Ain’t nobody gonna believe them

[3fluffies]

America is operating concentration camps.  There’s no getting around it.  Here’s what those places are actually like:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/ice-detention-center-ig-report/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/hhs-activities-unaccompanied-children/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/politics/border-patrol-mcallen-texas-pictures/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/31/us/arizona-migrant-child-abuse-allegations-shelter/index.html

[unexpectedyarns]

Why isn’t America being investigated by the UN for war crimes? 

[greenekangaroo]

We won’t let them in. 

Legit.

They’ve tried. 

[bpdirt]

me: what the hell is wrong with me brain: here’s a repressed memory that explains a lot of things me: Well Lock It Back Up?? Did I Ask For All That????

[thecheshiresmiles]

everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn. he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team’s trailers and shit. and now there’s Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they angered god but it was really just drunk hillbillies

[superiorhomo]

I don’t like adding to posts but I also have a funny story like this, so I was watching the movie the Blair witch which takes place in burkettsville maryland, which to me is so funny because that is were my grandfather lives and the town is literally just old people and cows with their main street consisting of a post office. Well anyway he told me that after it came out people were coming in like bus loads to the town to find the witch and my grandfather lives up in the Mountain area and people were up in his property trying to find the witch and it made him angry so he went out and hung up stick people and stacked rocks and it freaked the people out so they started thinking something was out there when really it was my 80 year old Italian grandpa who wanted people out of his woods.

[ginathethundergoddess]

We had ghost hunters come to a historic house in my town to film and if you think every high school kid in town respectfully stayed at home that night instead of going to fuck up that filming you’re dead wrong.

[animentality]

this is comforting, actually, sometimes paranormal things are just a bunch of bored people dicking around in the woods.

[kalyayev-deactivated20180228]

New favorite cryptid: locals

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ill never forgive the public education system

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this post isnt a joke btw. there is no feeling worse than being mentally ill in highschool

[camewiththeframe]

[persephonesstrap]

This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.

[arithanas]

This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—

The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.

The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.

The white one in the second line:  is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.

In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different.  The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).

The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young. The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new. The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date. The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver. The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those  I described are much more.

Those are mother’s rosaries.

Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families. It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name. It’s dehumanization.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

hi helo greetings here is an opinion by ME.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]